Shock-mover.



P. VOBL'LINGBR.

SHOCK MOVER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, 1912.

1,057,787. Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

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Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

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SHOCK-MOVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

Application filed May 20, 1912. Serial No. 698,385.

v To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER VOELLINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belleville, in the county of St. Clair, Sta-te of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Shock-Mover, of which the following is a. specification.

My invention consists of a device for loading shocks of corn, cane, grain or other shocked and bundled material, holding the same securely thereon and adapting them to be removed, the operation being conveniently and easily performed, the novel features of the device being hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific arrangement and organization shown and described.

Figures 1 and 4 represent side elevations of a shock mover embodying my invention, the parts being in different positions. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a rear end view thereof. Fig. 5 representsa top view of a detached portion. Fig. G represents a side elevation of one of the stakes employed with its sustaining and adjust-ing members.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates the side sills of the frame of a truck, the same being joined and strengthened by the front cross bar 2, and rear cross bar 3 which bars are secured firmly to said sills by screw bolts or other suitable means.

4 designates the tongue of the device, the same being connected with the rock-shaft 5, the latter being pivotally mounted on the sills 1, whereby said tongue may swing in` vertical direction. On the rear end of said tongue is the shoulder 6 which is adapted to abut the cross bar 2 and rest stationarily thereon. In order to retain the tongue in said stationary position and render it rigid on the frame of the truck, I employ the elbow lever 7 which is mounted on the side of the tongue and has on its rear limb 8, the nose 9 which is adapted to engage the top or elevated cross bar 10 of the arch 11, whose legs are bolted or otherwise firmly secured to the front ends of the sills 1, it being evident that when the front limb 12 of said lever is raised, the nose 9 is withdrawn from said arch when the tongue may turn with the rock shaft for purposes requiring the saine. The rear end of the frame is supported on the aXle 13 which is secured to the sills 1 and on which are the wheels 14, as the ruiming gear of the truck. The front limb 12 of the elbow lever 7 is formed with serrations 15 either of which may be placed in engagement with the cross bar 10 so that when the frame 1 is tilted or elevated from in front,

as shown in Fig. 4, to have shocks placed thereon, the improper lowering of said frame is prevented. It will be seen that owing to the nose or detent 9 on the rear limb of the lever 7 and the series of serra-- tions or detents 12 on the front limb thereof said lever is adapted to engage with either of the opposite sides of said cross bar so that said cro-ss bar and lever are sufficient to lock the tilting frame in either the elevated or normal position thereof without intermediate part-s.

Connected with the sills 1 is the cross bar 16 to which are secured the spurs or teeth 17 which project outwardly therefrom, so as to impale shocks that may be placed on the frame, thus preventing lateral shifting and downward slipping of the shocks.

Connected withthe axle 13 and adjacent portions of the sills 1 are standards 18, on the sides of which are ears 19 in which are rotatably mounted the vertically-extending vstakes 20 the upper port-ions are curved outwardly or laterally sothat when shocks are on .the frame, said stakes may be turned and their upper portions advanced toward the shocks so as to embrace the same and assist in holding them on the frame. In order to render the stakes immovable there are connected with them the tongues 21 which are adapted to enter the depressed grooves or recesses 22 in the ears 19 when said stakes are turned inwardly, said tongues thus acting as catches in said grooves for locking the stakes against improper movement, said grooves being duplicated on opposite places of the ears so as to lock the stakes when properly turned rearward. The windlass 23, ratchet 24 and rope or lashing 25 are in the main similar to those shown in the Letters Patent No. 1,021,495, heretofore granted to me on the 26th day of March, 1912.

Projecting from the rear of the frame, and in the present case bolted to the cross bar 3 are the pairs of prongs 26, the mem- CIK bers of which are salient outwardly, the same being adapted when the frame is tilted in the position shown in Fig. Il to pierce the ground in opposite directions with somewhat the effect of dovetailed-joints thus readily preventing shifting of the device. In this position, the shock in upright position may be placed on the frame and secured thereto by the members above stated. Then the elbow lever is released from the arch and t-he frame lowered when the nose 9 of the rear limb of said lever is interlocked with said arch whereby the frame and tongue are interlooked as one, the parts be ing in the position shown in Fig. l, it being evident that the front portions of the shocks rest on the arch and so are prevented from bearing on the animals that draw the device, and the weight of the shocks is well balanced on the frame.

By my device, shocks of corn, cane, grain, etc., and bundled material may be raised, and loaded upon the truck from the field or elsewhere, conveyed to their destination and unloaded upright with little physical effort and expenditure of time.

Attention is directed to the impaling teeth 17 whose shanks are of angular form and constructed preferably of flat plates` of metal, the vertical limbs being pointed. The horizontal limbs embrace the underside of the cross bar 16 and the vertical limbs rest solidly against the side of the cross bar. Rivets or bolts 27 are passed through said vertical limbs and the cross bar, thus firmly connecting said teeth with the latter. Rivets are preferred, their ends being headed on said vertical limbs while the heads proper are on the opposite side of the cross bar thus forming a strong structure.

Having thus described niy invention what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a shock remover, a tilting frame provided with a cross bar, a draft member pivotally connected with said frame, and a lever mounted on said draft member, said lever having each of its ends provided with a detent, either of which is adapted to engage one of the opposite sides of said cross bar relatively to the elevated or normal position of said frame.

shock mover having a tilting frame, a draft member pivot-ally mounted thereon, a cross bar on said frame, and a two part lever on said member the limbs of said lever being adapted to engage said bar respeo tively in the elevated and normal positions of said frame.

3. A shock mover having a tilting frame, a draft member pivotal thereon, a cross bar on said frame, and a swinging lever mounted on said tongue, each limb of said lever being adapted to engage said bar relatively to the elevated and normal positions of said frame.

4t. A shock mover having a tilting frame, and outwardly extending teeth thereon adapted to impale the shock placed on said frame, said teeth having angular shanks and a cross member on said frame, the hori- Zontal and vertical limbs of said Shanks resting solidly against the relative sides of said cross member.

5. ln a shock mover, a tilting frame, and a pair of prongs on the rear thereof, the members of the pair being salient laterally in opposite directions.

PETER VOELLINGER. lVitnesses:

lV. F. Kinonnn, Finn). J. SCHRADER.

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